Sydney lockout laws

“What do you mean, it’s slightly harder for me to get a Jägerbomb at 1.30am? Damn you, Mike Baird!”

That’s how comedian Jordan Shanks, 26, characterises the resistance to the Sydney lockout laws in his eight-minute diatribe on YouTube. Though he’s against the controversial measures introduced in 2014 to reduce alcohol-fuelled violence in the city’s late-night hotspots, he comes across a bit bitter that this, of all issues, seems to be the one that’s galvanising his generation.

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I have been alcohol-free since end December 2013. Lots of things, good and bad, have happened in the time since I stopped drinking, but nothing has tempted me back to the dark side! Actually it wasn't always all that dark - I had a lot of fun with alcohol over the 36 years of drinking. But on December 12th 2013 I came to the realisation that I needed a change. Things had started to get a bit messy, and I began to realise that alcohol might be more of a problem than a solution. It dawned on me that if I didn't drink, my world would be unimaginably different. That prospect seemed quite exciting all of a sudden. A new adventure. It's that adventure that I tell in my book "Not Alcoholic, But..."
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